Talk:2018 Barbadian general election

Election date?
There seems to be uncertainty about when a general election must be held in Barbados.

Here are some excerpts from the Constitution of Barbados
 * 61(3) "...Parliament, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date of its first sitting after any dissolution and shall then stand dissolved."
 * 62(1) "After every dissolution of Parliament the Governor General shall issue writs for a general election of members of appointment the House of Assembly returnable within ninety days from that dissolution."

The current Parliament first sat on 6 March 2013.

If Parliament were to be dissolved today (15 February 2018), a General Election would have to be held within 90 days i.e. by 16 May 2018.

But if not previously dissolved, the Parliament would end automatically (be constitutionally dissolved) on 6 March 2018.

The Governor General would then have to call a General Election, to be held within 90 days, i.e. by 4 June 2018 Boy.bowen (talk) 19:45, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Currently the article says that it is expected in May, which is rather different to it having to be held in May. I was slightly thrown by the fact that your edit to the article claimed that it had to be held by 6 March. Number   5  7  19:49, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Number of seats
What's up with all these edits making the results 28/2 seats when the sources we have says it's 30/0. Has there been a recount? Seems like the strangest thing to vandalise. --Aréat (talk) 15:33, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I did a quick search to see if there had been any change since the elections, but couldn't find anything (there was an article from early October still referring to the 30/0 division). If it happens again I'm going to protect the article for a while. Number   5  7  15:45, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Results, candidates etc
Seems to be a bit of uncertainty as to the exact results/turnout etc. As far as I can work out every source (including Caribbean Elections) carries the preliminary results. The final results appear to be held in this parliamentary report, which, among other things, gives nine parties, not eight.The Grand Lunar (talk) 16:45, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for finding that – I had been in email contact with the election commission trying to get a copy of the report (to get the final results) but was advised I should come to their offices (if only!). I have updated the table with the full and final results. Cheers, Number   5  7  17:15, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

No trouble! I found it via Google, it doesn't appear to be linked to anywhere on the Parliament site itself. I emailed it to Caribbean Elections a couple of weeks ago but no reply, I wonder what the status of that project is.The Grand Lunar (talk) 19:32, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately it seems whoever was running the site has stopped – it hasn't had any updates since 2019. It's a massive shame as I think it was one of the very best election resources on the internet. It looks like it was run by a company that merged into KWI Research, who can be contacted here if anyone is interested in asking what happened. Number   5  7  20:02, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Missing DLP and other party figures in the info box
I noticed when looking at the election pages for the 2018 and 2022 elections that the figures for the DLP are missing which as a Barbadian is extremely misleading as it makes Barbados look like a one party state and removes the context for the BLP gaining all of the seats (at the DLP, the government at the time's expense) from the most accessible location in the page. Overall, it just doesn't tell a properly summarised story of what happened (because "where did those +16 seats for the BLP come from?", for example). This has the possibility of being misleading and confusing to anyone who tries using this site to see what happened in the election. It's one thing to omit minor parties, but another to omit a major party who was forming government at the time of the election and other parties that contested most races here and was certainly present on the ground in terms of campaigning. As I said, this is a point of concern as a Barbadian because the info box, which should be a summary of key information, is missing some pretty key information needed to understand the election, its context and significance at a glance without reading through the article. Jlayne001 (talk) 15:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)